The concluding paragraph of the last cited passage, "My name is in him,"
is equivalent to "I am in him." The mere name of God is often used to
denote God Himself as manifested. For instance, in I Kings viii. 29 is
contained the statement, "My name shall be there"; that is, "There will
I dwell." And when it is said that the name of Jehovah would be in the
angel of Jehovah it is equivalent to saying that Jehovah Himself would
be present in His messenger which He had sent before Him. The passage
further teaches that the messenger of Jehovah to the earth bore a
commission to pardon sin, or not to, according to his pleasure. The
Sanhedrin were undoubtedly aware that Jesus claimed the same power by
virtue of authority vested in Him by His Father.
But it may be imagined that Caiaphas was perfectly willing to concede
that Jehovah had appeared in human form upon the earth, but was not
inclined to believe that He had ever manifested human passions and
emotions, as Jesus had done when He denounced on several occasions the
hypocrisy of the Pharisees; and, above all, when He overthrew the tables
in the Temple, and, applying a lash to their backs, drove out the
money-changers.[334] Let us imagine that the high priest demanded of the
prisoner proof from the ancient Scriptures that Jehovah was possessed of
ordinary human attributes; and particularly that He was at times
disposed to fight. Jesus might have produced the following passages to
show that Jehovah, His Father, had manifested in times past the ordinary
human passions and emotions of repentance, grief, jealousy, anger,
graciousness, love, and hate:
Ex. xv. 3, 6: The Lord is a man of war.... Thy right hand, O
Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath
dashed in pieces the enemy.
Gen. vi. 6: And it _repented_ the Lord that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Deut. vi. 15: For the Lord thy God is a _jealous_ God among you,
lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and
destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Psa. cxi. 4: He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the
Lord is _gracious_ and full of _compassion_.
I Kings x. 9: Because the Lord _loved_ Israel forever, therefore
made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
Prov. vi. 16: These six things doth the Lord _hate_: yea, seven are
an abomination unto him.
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